News and Highlights

BREAKING NEWS: Postdocs Serve on Two UA Senate Committees!

Keaton Wilson, postdoc in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, and Thomas Moon, postdoc in Chemistry & Biochemistry, have been selected to join two UA Senate Committees -- the Senate Academic Personnel Committee (Wilson) and the Senate Research Policy Committee (Moon) – for the remainder of the 2017-2018 academic year. These are both temporary positions; however, following this pilot, it is our hope that postdoc representation on the UA Senate, and/or as part of Senate committees, will eventually become permanent.

Individual Development Plan: A Key to Reaching Academic and Career Goals Workshop: April 2018

The individual development plan (IDP) provides a mechanism for ensuring that graduate students and postdoctoral scholars get the training they need to be successful in reaching their academic and career goals. This workshop covered the essentials of creating an IDP, the benefits and pitfalls of IDPs, and first-hand experiences of implementing IDPs in graduate and postdoctoral training programs.